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To: Redcitizen

It could be some sort of diesel-electric drivetrain like most locomotives. The fuel efficiency and power in diesel-electric locomotives has been proven for decades.

But the article is not clear on that.


38 posted on 10/09/2022 11:06:55 AM PDT by sloanrb
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To: sloanrb
It could be some sort of diesel-electric drivetrain like most locomotives.

DOD has been developing solid oxide fuel cell technology that runs on JP-8 since 2010 or earlier. The stated purpose has always been low maintenance, high efficiency gensets, but I recall some talk about testing it in APCs and such for electric drive power. The big problem then was dealing with the fuel cell's waste heat, not insignificant on the battlefield.

No telling what's under the hood now (or what might be slated for later production).

62 posted on 10/09/2022 12:08:29 PM PDT by Charles Martel (Progressives are the crab grass in the lawn of life.)
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To: sloanrb

The fuel efficiency and power in diesel-electric locomotives has been proven for decades.


Especially when those diesel-electric locomotives where sent into combat under adverse conditions and hostile fire.


68 posted on 10/09/2022 12:29:48 PM PDT by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now its your turn)
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